RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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hey learned to share the land and work together for a new America.
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Many southern whites claimed that the Bureau was organizing blacks against their former masters.
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The whites and blacks hated each other even more and a second war known as the Reconstruction War began.
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The Freedman’s Bureau didn’t affect the relationship between blacks and whites.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On March 3, 1865, Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following are true about the Freedmen’s Bureau? The bureau was in charge of settling freedpoeple on abandoned lands. The bureau established schools for black southerns. The bureau provided emergency food, clothing, and medical care to war refugees.
Detailed explanation-3: -Freed Persons Receive Wages From Former Owner Some emancipated slaves quickly fled from the neighborhood of their owners, while others became wage laborers for former owners. Most importantly, African Americans could make choices for themselves about where they labored and the type of work they performed.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Freedmen’s Bureau provided assistance to tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the Southern States and the District of Columbia in the years following the war. It helped freedpeople establish schools, purchase land, locate family members, and legalize marriages.